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  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actre...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 32 m

The Novelist's Film

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Summary Junhee (Lee Hyeyoung) is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her own writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with Kilsoo (Kim Minhee), a well-known actre...

Directed By: Hong Sang-soo

Written By: Hong Sang-soo

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100
Oct 27, 2022
A Chekhovian study in small moments and chance encounters, which is to say it is a study of human beings as they really live: ambiguously and without exposition, spontaneously and without tidy motives or resolution.
By Austin Considine FULL REVIEW
88
Feb 16, 2022
The film proves that Hong Sang-soo has yet to exhaust his methods of deriving significance and beauty from the most quotidian of details.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 27, 2022
I can’t say whether Hong has suffered any of the creative self-doubts that animate his latest heroine, but the film he’s made for her feels as revealing as the one she then makes for herself. Free your art, your art will free you in return — a nice idea, but one that the uniqueness of Hong’s career makes easier to admire than it is to internalize.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 2, 2022
The style, tone, and characters will be familiar to you, but there will be a richness that might not be there otherwise. Then again, Hong Sang-soo is a keen observer of humanity and a skilled enough filmmaker that it probably works terrifically on its own.
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80
Oct 24, 2022
The Novelist’s Film is straightforwardly chronological and naturalistic, but that makes it no less intricate or sophisticated a reflection on the nature of movies, both intellectual and practical.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 18, 2022
Some small-scale but surprising formal twists, and much playfulness, will keep his admirers happy.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 18, 2022
The deadpan edge of much of the film’s 90 minutes of prattle conceals thoughts on the insularity of creative communities, the ticking clock of an artist’s life and the importance of remaining open to finding truth even in what appear to be random connections.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jeonwonsa Film
Release Date Oct 28, 2022
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Website http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/thenovelistsfilm.html
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Film Comment Magazine, USA
• 1 Nomination

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